Emma John

Clarisse Créme tells Emma John about her battles against chauvinism and discredited accusations of cheating to take her place in the 2024 Vendée Globe round-the-world race

Managers of England and USA have different demeanours but share the same overall philosophy – know your people

In the Appalachians of North Carolina, the mountain town of Boone has great bluegrass music, friendly people and a sense of old-time Amedirica

Do you have the Kleenex at the ready? Because the retirement of two British sporting greats is a powerful memento mori

Unfamiliar songs are performed beautifully in an episodic play featuring the escapades of the rackety real-life Addison and Wilson Mizner

Lina Nielsen remembers the moment she had the idea. She was sitting around the Olympic Village in Paris with her sprinting teammates – and she was

Strictly Come Dancing has hit participation but the gymnast Louis Smith is still flying the flag for sporting heroes on stage

Writer and musician Emma John travels south to find the beat—and birthplace—of a special kind of Mississippi music.

Magnus Carlsen’s jeans put the spotlight on chess’s sartorial intransigence but it is not the only sport struggling to adapt to modern style

Clashes between players and spectators at Australian Open is just another example of the shouty polarities of our age